Amy Chozick to cover the Clintons for New York Times

Amy Chozick, who has been on the corporate media beat for the New York Times, is joining the paper’s political team to cover Hillary Clinton and her family.

Amy Chozick

“In addition to media stories, Amy got the first extensive interview with Chelsea Clinton and traveled to Africa with Bill Clinton to write the front-page curtain raiser to Mr. Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention,” writes political editor Carolyn Ryan.

Her memo is after the jump.

July 2, 2013

New Beat for Chozick

I’m delighted to announce that Amy Chozick will be joining our political team, with a special focus reporting on Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family.

Amy is an unusually gifted reporter, with a unique ability to penetrate tight-lipped institutions and deliver dazzling and detailed stories from within. She is relentless and not easily intimidated: her coverage of News Corporation prompted Rupert Murdoch to call her personally to debate the lede in one story. (“Rupert Murdoch was getting cold feet.”).

Amy joined The New York Times to cover corporate media in 2011 and has chronicled major developments and corner office intrigue among the industry’s powerbrokers. Her sophisticated coverage of stories such as terminal snooping at Bloomberg LP and phone hacking at News Corporation has won her praise inside and outside of the Times.

She has terrific range and broad curiosity: she wrote front-page stories about the Koch Brothers eyeing newspapers, the Assad family hiring Western P.R. firms to bolster its image abroad, and the hacking collective Anonymous targeting media executives.

In addition to media stories, Amy got the first extensive interview with Chelsea Clinton and traveled to Africa with Bill Clinton to write the front-page curtain raiser to Mr. Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Prior to joining The Times, Amy spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal, where her posts included foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, national political correspondent and a features writer covering the entertainment industry. As a member of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s traveling press corps she rode on oddly aromatic campaign buses in 48 states and covered more than 20 debates. (“You’re likable enough, Hillary”).

She then wrote features about politics, including a WSJ. Magazine profile of White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Amy began her journalism career when she moved to New York with no job, no apartment and a stack of clips from The Daily Texan. She lives in the East Village with her husband, Robert Ennis.